Events Archive 2008-2009
2008 New Faculty Opening Reception
Monday September 8th, The President’s Room, Woolsey Hall
Welcome from the Women Faculty Forum Co-Chairs:
Hannah Brueckner, Professor of Sociology
Shirley McCarthy, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Introductions by:
Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College and Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
Reva B. Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Professor of
American Studies
Comments by:
T. Kyle Vanderlick, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical Engineering
Poetry Reading by:
Elizabeth Alexander, Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, passages from Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color
Junior Women Faculty Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, September 25, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 2nd Floor, Room 208, 53 Wall St.
To discuss issues facing women faculty at Yale such as: childcare, mentoring, and tenure criteria, and to talk about strategies to promote institutional change.
Sponsored by the WFF Institutional Change Working Group
Gender around the World: A Conversation with the Women of the Yale World Fellows
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
5:30-8:00pm
Betts House, 393 Prospect Street, Third Floor
This event featured the women of the 2008 Yale World Fellows in a panel discussion moderated by Professor Judith Resnik, former Co-Chair of the Women Faculty Forum.
During the panel, the women of the World Fellows reflected on the following questions:
- 1. How, if at all, does gender affect your work?
- 2. Has gender played a role in the trajectory of your career?
- 3. Is gender, in turn, a focus of your work? Do you work on issues that you or others perceive as "gender coded"?
Following the panel, a reception with refreshments were held on the First Floor of Betts House.
Women's Spoken Word Performance Group: First meeting
Wednesday October 22nd 5-7pm
WFF Office (305 Crown St).
This year, WFF and other women's groups on campus hope to start a spoken word performance group as a forum for women's voices and a discussion about gender in the Yale Community. Spoken word performance consists of monologues, stories, or poetry, usually personal in content, performed by individuals or groups. At its best it can be personally touching, but also a raw and powerful tool for advocacy. The group, which we hope will include women from every part of the Yale community (undergrad, grad, staff, faculty, and administrative), will meet regularly and practice in a workshop environment, and ultimately perform our work in the first half of second semester.
Breakfast with Linda Babcock
Thursday, October 30, 8:30-9:30 AM
Rosenfeld Hall, Lecture Room
A lecture breakfast with Linda Babcock, author of Women Don’t Ask.
Sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Women Faculty Forum.
Please RSVP by October 26 to wff@yale.edu or (203) 432 8847
"Transforming University Settings: The Problems and Promise of Stereotype Threat"
Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University.
February 23, 4:30-5:30 pm, LC 101
Maya Herulf: “Speaking with Authority” Workshops
February 26, 2-5:30pm, Room 1-16, 300 Cedar St. (Yale Medical School)
February 27, 9:30am-1pm WLH (100 Wall St) Room 309
Learn to make your public speaking, teaching, and presentations more compelling with individual guidance from an expert. A reprise of one of WFF’s most popular 2008 events.
“Do Babies Matter in the Academy?”
Mary Ann Mason, Professor and Co-Director, Center, Economics & Family Security at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
March 27. Afternoon time and Location TBA
Dr. Mason appeared in Saturday’s “Institutional Change” Panel at the Yale Law School’s "‘Opt Out’ Or Pushed Out: Are Women Choosing to Leave the Legal Profession?” Conference.
"Want a Great Work/Life Balance? Go For It: Individual and Insitutional Solutions"
Joan Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, 1066 Foundation Chair and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, UC Hastings College of the Law
April 3, 8:30-9:30am , WLH (100 Wall St.) Room 119
Charles Gallaudet Trumbull Lectureship, co-sponsored by Yale Office of the Secretary, Dean’s Office of FAS Graduate School , and Yale WorkLife Program.
Marianne LaFrance, Professor of Psychology at Yale University
"Gender Participation and Performance in Science and Mathematics: The Ordinary Origins and Unintended Consequences of Attitudes and Stereotypes”
Kristin Lane, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Bard College
April 17, 12-1pm, OISS ( 421 Temple Street), First Floor
